NRC’s callous disregard for the public’s health, safety and financial interests is shameful. NRC’s DRAFT Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Limerick Nuclear Plant is a disgraceful whitewash of radioactive contamination of us and our environment, of major toxic chemical contamination of our air and water from the cooling towers and other sources at Limerick, and of unprecedented threats to drinking water supplies for millions of people across six counties.

NRC’s absurd “DRAFT” EIS can and must be changed to protect our interests. It is indefensible for NRC to make the unsubstantiated claim that harms are small. Denying the reality of Limerick’s past harms and future threats protects Exelon’s profits and NRC jobs, but it abandons the health, safety and financial interests of millions in the Greater Philadelphia Region.

It’s really about relicensing to 2049. The fact is, as long as Limerick continues to operate, radiation and other dangerous toxics will be released. People will continue to suffer needlessly from the additive, cumulative and synergistic harmful impacts.

Before June 27 you can still send written comments to leslie.perkins@nrc.gov Subject: Limerick Nuclear Plant DRAFT EIS or mail to Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Ms. Leslie Perkins, Washington, D.C. 30555-0001

Limerick released radiation into our air and water since 1985. Even though we can’t see, smell, feel or taste it, it’s everywhere. Exposure to Limerick’s radiation is an unavoidable injustice.

Don’t be fooled! ‘Permissible’ doesn’t mean safe. The National Academy of Sciences BEIR VII report (2005) said there is “NO SAFE DOSE.”

Dr. John Gofman, former Atomic Energy Commission chief, raised dire warnings about permitted radiation releases from nuclear plants, publishing research showing an estimated 32,000 Americans would die each year from fatal cancers induced by “allowable” radiation releases. Gofman said, “The entire nuclear power program is based on a fraud, that there is a permissible dose that wouldn’t hurt anyone.”

Cancers skyrocketed after 1985, when Limerick started releasing radiation into us and our environment. Shocking cancer rates are documented far higher than the national average, especially in children, with data from the Pennsylvania Cancer Registry and CDC website. ACE cancer mapping is alarming. Our relay for life is one of the largest anywhere. Limerick’s radiation releases are obviously a major factor.

Limerick is a major air polluter under health-based standards of the Clean Air Act, releasing so much cooling tower PM-10, that Limerick needed a six-fold permit increase in 2009. PM-10 is considered more deadly than ozone.

Limerick discharges of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) into the Schuylkill River are up to five times Safe Drinking Water Standards. TDS transports radiation and cooling tower toxics into this vital drinking water source for almost two million people from Pottstown to Philadelphia. Cooling towers are depleting the river, even after supplementation with toxic unfiltered mine water and other sources.

We need elected officials to send written comments challenging and opposing NRC’s absurd EIS for Limerick before June 27! Encourage your local, state and federal elected officials to protect us, not Exelon’s profits. Exelon’s donations have been silencing organizations and elected officials who turned a blind eye. One East Coventry Supervisor, Michael Moyer, is protecting our interests. He strongly rejected NRC’s unethical attempt to relicense Limerick a decade before Limerick’s license expires, and NRC’s shameful attempt to exclude Limerick from NRC’s court-ordered high-level radioactive waste study.